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Lightning destroyed my 4 DVB-S cards, what should I replace them with?
by Carsten Koch 27 May '07

27 May '07

I had 1 FF and 2 budget cards in one PC, 1 FF card in the other. All 4 were destroyed by lightning this morning during a thunderstorm. What are the best cards to replace them with? In an earlier post, Klaus wrote that he is working on HDTV support and that he is using a TT-budget S2-3200. Would that be a good model to replace my 2 budget cards with? Does the driver work reliably now? Is there a supported FF HDTV card? If no, would the TT-premium S-2300 be the best choice? Should I still buy a FF card at all or does xine or softdevice work just as reliably by now? Thanks for any hints! :-) Carsten.

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RE: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR sync early patch
by Martin 26 May '07

26 May '07

Thanks Reinhard!Upgraded now to vdr-1.4.6-1-bigpatch + your speed up patch. It's working and I also see some increase in speed. I think now the limiting factor here on my side are the audio and video buffers of xine. If I make them too small, I get frame drops. But anyways: your tweak is putting switching speed to the limit.Regards,Martin> Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 22:23:03 +0200> From: rnissl(a)gmx.de> To: vdr(a)linuxtv.org> Subject: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR sync early patch> > Hi,> > the motivation for this patch was to speed up zapping channels when> using vdr-xine, i. e. to shorten the time from pressing the remote> button till audio and video appear.> > FF card users may only see the effect of this patch when the FF card is> running in transfer mode.> > The idea is to not wait for the first I frame in transfer mode. Although> output devices "can't" decode any frames before the first I frame, the> contained PTS in the PES packets allows the device to synchronize audio> and video even before the first video frame appears on screen.> > Another issue which is addressed by this patch is that audio packets> were not delivered to the device immediately after switching the> channel, so the above change didn't have any effect. Calling> EnsureAudioTrack() fixes this.> > How much speed up can be expected? Well, it varies from zap to zap as it> depends on a couple of parameters like the offset of audio and video> PTS, whether a PTS is available per frame, the number of frames till the> next I frame arrives, etc. But a speed up should be noticeable.> > BTW: Testers of plugin ** should comment out the following line in> cTSBuffer::Get() in file device.c, like that:> > // if(!device->***) device->***=new c***;> > This change is highly recommended if you experience buffer overflows> while switching channels, though they are not related to the sync early> patch.> > Bye.> -- > Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl> mailto:rnissl@gmx.de _________________________________________________________________ Live Search: Gefunden! Tolle Bilder von Paris Hilton gibt es hier! http://search.msn.de/images/results.aspx?q=Paris%20hilton

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Thunderstorm over Munich
by Martin 26 May '07

26 May '07

Who is interested in the weather in Munich? Probably nobody, mine either as I was sitting indor to watch my favourite TV shows.Then suddenly a nice "emergency exit" .. i had this game for 15 Minutes .. I do not tell you how lucky I am that the thunderstorm is over now ..Thanks for letting me know, that vdr needs to exit, when there is a thunderstorm, while i am watching ...Have a nice day,Martin _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Messenger: Jetzt den Nachfolger vom MSN Messenger kostenlos downloaden! http://get.live.com/messenger/overview

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record plug-in..
by JJussi 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hi! Is there (somewhere) or is easy to produce plug-in what would save (record) all what you are watching live? Something like last 30 - 60 minutes?!? That way you could always rewind backward and that would remove that gap (of time) what now exists when you press "pause" (at least I have "problem"; when I press pause button, it takes over 10 seconds before it's actually pausing live stream) -- JJussi

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Xineliboutput: can achieve similar to softdevice's mgatv option?
by Alasdair Campbell 25 May '07

25 May '07

Can vdr-xineliboutput utilize the excellent interlaced output of a Matrox G450 with VGA>SCART cable? I'm seeing what I can only describe as video stutters/shakes with interlaced video and quick movements, long camera pans. Using latest vdr-xineliboutput, DirectFB-1.0.0 & xine-lib-1.1.5 using Gentoo ebuilds. Otherwise xineliboutput is working fantastically! (well without any sound but that's another issue for another day :-) ) -- A l a s d a i r C a m p b e l l r a g a w u @ g m a i l . c o m

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VDR: Mantis bug tracking and a forum
by Pasi Juppo 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hi, It would be nice if there was proper bug tracking used for VDR development instead mailing list. See example from streamdev issue: http://www.vdr-developer.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=255 The tool is good for this purpose. Same actually goes for this mailing list. Proper forum is much more convenient than mailing list because of proper threading etc. features. Could someone be able to set up the forum and most importantly would this discussion move to the forum? Br, Pasi

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VDR 1.5.x + streamdev issue
by alexw 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hi, I am using VDR 1.5.2 in a streamdev only environment. With the vanilla CVS version of streamdev I am receiving a channel picture after every 2 channel switches. I did a bug report and schmirl did post a quick fix. Unfortunately it is not 100% perfect and time to time the picture does not pop up on the screen. Is anyone else experiencing such behavior? Mantis bug tracking system: http://www.vdr-developer.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=255 Cheers, Alex

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How to customize lcdproc for vdr ?
by kafifi 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hello, I am using vdr-1.4.7, and vdr-lcdproc-0.0.10-jw2, to drive a 16x2 characters imon VFD module. The display is really nice, but 16x2 isn't enough to display all datas. I would customize lcdproc to remove all EPG informations, and display only time, channel number and channel name. Could someone help me to do this customization ? Thanks a lot.

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unknown picture type error
by Andreas Mair 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi! I recently had the UPT error but now there are some logs that are new to me. Maybe someone has an idea? My VDR box runs VDR 1.4.7, DVB-refactoring drivers ~2weeks ago and has two DVB-S FF cards. Thanks in advance! Andreas *** LOG *** May 19 21:17:04 [vdr] [3870] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 1727, tp 212168 May 19 21:20:34 [vdr] [3870] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 1855, tp 212581 May 19 21:27:46 [kernel] saa7146_i2c_writeout: timed out waiting for end of xfer May 19 21:41:34 [vdr] [3870] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 1727, tp 212168 May 19 21:42:38 [kernel] saa7146_i2c_writeout: timed out waiting for end of xfer May 19 21:45:04 [vdr] [3870] frontend 1 timed out while tuning to channel 1855, tp 212581 May 19 21:49:10 [vdr] [3871] channel 3 (Bayerisches FS) event Sam 19.05.2007 21:45-21:50 (VPS: 19.05 21:45) 'Rundschau' status 4 ... May 19 22:06:19 [vdr] [3918] cAudioRepacker(0xC0): skipped 576 bytes to sync on next audio frame May 19 22:06:19 [vdr] [3918] cVideoRepacker: found system start code: stream seems to be scrambled or not demultiplexed May 19 22:06:21 [vdr] [3917] ERROR: unknown picture type '4' May 19 22:06:22 [vdr] [3917] ERROR: unknown picture type '5' May 19 22:06:22 [vdr] [3917] ERROR: unknown picture type '4' May 19 22:06:26 [vdr] [3917] ERROR: unknown picture type '6' May 19 22:06:29 [vdr] [3917] ERROR: unknown picture type '5' May 19 22:06:39 [vdr] [3917] ERROR: unknown picture type '5' - Last output repeated twice - May 19 22:06:43 [vdr] [3917] ERROR: unknown picture type '4' - Last output repeated twice - May 19 22:06:49 [vdr] [3917] ERROR: unknown picture type '6' May 19 22:06:52 [vdr] [3917] ERROR: unknown picture type '4' May 19 22:06:52 [vdr] [3917] initiating emergency exit May 19 22:06:53 [vdr] [3836] emergency exit requested - shutting down -- http://andreas.vdr-developer.org --- VDRAdmin-AM VDR user #303

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cFemonOsd::Show() cannot open frontend device
by Alasdair Campbell 20 May '07

20 May '07

When trialing vdr-femon-1.1.0 with vdr-xineliboutput-1.0.0_rc1 I receive the following error when trying to view the signal information of my recording server via my streaming only client. ERROR: cFemonOsd::Show() cannot open frontend device. Is this a known problem or is there something more I need to configure for my specific setup? [I need Femon to investigate dvb-t signal issues:- with vdr running the signal to my old freeview settop box is degraded to an unusable level. Signal from common aerial is being split with a "1 in 2 out" signal amplifier. There's a 25m cable to the vdr server and a 12m cable to the set top box.] Any advice gladly received! -- A l a s d a i r C a m p b e l l r a g a w u @ g m a i l . c o m

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